Mastodawn

After being extremely cryptic about the new hardware project I'm working on in my last "photo of my monitor" post, here's a hopefully less cryptic one. Now that more things are working, here's a clue that is hopefully a little more obvious about what it is:

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Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallant Jul 9

@polpo I mean, what is IDE if not just 8 bit ISA with fewer address pins.

Excited to see more!

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Ian Scott Jul 9

@thejpster it's 16 bit and I'm targeting the tighter timing requirements of the faster IDE modes, so the RP2350B's extra GPIOs, M33 cores, and PIO improvements are all making this progress possible! 😁

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Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallant

@polpo Nice. I’ve found one of the trickiest IDE implementations to be the one in the Acorn Risc PC - I even had an SD2IDE adapter stop the Ethernet card from working. Looking forward to new alternatives.